Things have been moving on with my game this week. The main thing I tackled was detecting wall collisions, which seemed simple enough at first but then I found you could subvert it by walking into a wall whilst offset from it’s “grid” by a few pixels.
I ended up using a tutorial provided in PICO-8 Zine #3 along with some advice from both the PICO-8 BBS and the Slack channel to implement a hitbox system, which works just lovely.
Also this week I’ve added what I’m currently calling warp tiles, but could just as easily be switches or traps when I decide what I’m going to do with them. My original collision detection routine for these now needs updating to be as accurate as the wall method – I’m probably going to figure out a universal collision function before I move on to other things I could collide with.
Oh yeah, and there’s also a big text box at the bottom of the screen, which I’m quite pleased with. Just look at it, with it’s almost 3D look. Awesome.
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Remember, you can click in that box and play. Woooo.
Other things to do:
- Animate man/woman/bird/goat.
- Actually think about what sort of game this is going to be.
- Write the damn game.
